At 32.40 the tractors are filmed under load. They have the pressurized gas producers by a engine driven fan.
I see in the film, the producer sealing wasn’t important. It looks like the heavy wet hopper smoke is sacrificed.
Any thoughts?
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Yes. Many thoughts rewatching this video even starting from 32:40, and then on.
First just how comprehensive and thorough Mr Sergey Lagunov was with this video. His emphasis not so much on the technical details of solid hydrocarbons fuels for IC engines; but the social and political NEEDS, and responses that drove their development and usages.
I also have read and watched the Soviet developed small true woodgas train engines for transporting out forest woods harvests.
We here in the mountainous Pacific Northwest used to use a lots of purpose built narrow gage steam railroad logging too. A big self-contained track layer; and later track removal machine is on display in a State park in eastern Oregon. There and other PNW museums are the steel cable logging donkey steam machines. I have watch these local-pride being demonstration worked. They were to drag-in harvest logs to a temporary layed down rail point. Then they were the winch power to lift and load the logs onto the transport rail cars. These steam donkeys would winch drag themselves on huge log skid bases to reposition. Anchoring to stumps.
Like the Soviet forests machines BruceJ. these were fueled with on-site as-cut green woods.
Another comparison would be the relatively small steam stern wheeler boats used here PNW including up in British Columbia on our inland rivers. Before rails. Before roads. Steam powered with local relatively wet woods. Confir woods mostly.
Not time for sitting-in-place dried down prefect fuel woods. Or centralized factory forced dried down “specification woods” for these usages.
Open fire box for steam production; or an enclosed gasifer system these had to vent off a lot of excessive moistures. And what would have been clogging creosotes tars.
With our nanny state world we now have to endure venting visible or dumping of seen liquids is something to avoid.
And if ever an evolved down S(has)HTF long term do you really want to from a distance advertise your personal activities? I think not. Gunfire sounds protecting; will from an even farther distance, draw-in unwanted’s. You will run out of bullets.
And in this scenario with limited time and labor you want your wood harvesting and preparation to be as quiet as possible too.
And fuel-use as thrifty as possible. You will only have just so many sweating hours in any given day.
Just my thoughts.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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My property is partially swamp. The nearby town is named Cedar. Guess why. Back in the very early 1900’s they logged out the area and the best way to transport the logs to the nearest highway’ed location was to build a track right through the edge of this swamp. No idea how they did that or even why it was economically feasible. Only one track wide and they would have had to haul a bazillion tons of fill to build up a bed solid enough to run a train on. Even now it is watery swamp on both side of that bed. Part of it runs through my property and there are still ties somewhat intact or at least enough that you cannot pry the rail spikes out of some of them. I have two culverts running under the bed that were made out of cast iron and formed into 18 inch diameter tubes with the seams riveted. They were still fairly intact when I bought this property 50 years ago. They are starting to deteriorate badly now.
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This video somehow bypasses the issue that fuel is primarily needed for growing and harvesting! And no electric cars will solve this issue. Humanity can only rely on that part of the energy it receives from the Sun. And trees are the best accumulators of solar energy. Because unlike semiconductor solar panels and lithium and other batteries, they purify the air and water on the planet. They give life to everyone living on Earth.
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In case anyone actually looked for the tractor. It is actually a KT-12 tractor. it used the Engine: 45hp/2400rpm, 6-cyl, 5555cc Bore/Stroke: 101.6/114.3 mm. From a ZIS-21 Truck which also was sold with a wood gas generator.
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